Turkish delight - Turkey's drug gangs branch out
Jane's Intelligence Review, 29 August 2008
http://jir.janes.com/
"Turkey's strategic location and its proximity to opium-producing areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan have long made it an important transit country for drug trafficking and a distribution hub for heroin shipments into the EU. However, partly owing to shifts in production within Afghanistan, greater amounts of heroin are being trafficked through Turkish networks, at the same time as these groups are diversifying into co-operation with other criminal groups."
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